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Elio looked at his dark house, then at his ridiculous bells. He started to laugh—a weary, jagged sound. "It was too much, wasn't it?"

: Vinicio Capossela uses the same title for his concert tour , which blends traditional Christmas songs with a more theatrical, "folkloric" celebration style. If you tell me what kind of ending you prefer, I can:

Elio had spent weeks on a ladder, his fingers numb, stringing ten thousand LED bulbs across his roof. His goal was simple: he wanted his house to be the only thing visible from a low-orbit satellite. Sergio, on the other hand, had opted for a single, massive, inflatable Santa Claus that shook with a violent, motorized cough every time the wind blew.